My point was not to fear monger but to get at the idea that there's more to the fact that CNN is covering this than the story straight up and throwing out a possibility. It's funny that you have yet to refute anything but say I'm bad at "thinking", then go on to claim I'm the one getting defensive over my ideas. But that sequence of events only goes to prove my original point about what this place has become.

You clearly did not understand what I wrote at all if what you took away was that darpa needed to announce the technology for it to exist as I explained it has already existed for awhile and has even been in use on the Internet for years. However for your point to have any merit knowledge of such technology would probably need to be made widely available, because otherwise the blackmailing would still have value, since the idea behind the blackmailing is that it would destroy them in the eyes of the public.